Description: The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics
Brief description: Daniel Worden, Rochester, New York, teaches in the School of Individualized Study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism and the coeditor of Oil Culture.
Review Quotes: Daniel Worden's edited collection of graphic journalist Joe Sacco's critically acclaimed work makes a valuable contribution to several intersecting fields: comics studies, memory and trauma studies, and journalism, as well as visual and popular culture. This is a welcome first full-length collection of essays on Sacco's graphic reportage. . . . The Comics of Joe Sacco is an important editorial venture that can serve both as an introduction and an in-depth study of Sacco's work, and also as an important platform for some of the most heated current conversations on contemporary journalism and the medium of comics. Daniel Worden's editing has produced a well-structured series of in-depth close readings of Sacco's comics, with clearly articulated theses, expert and sometimes fresh critical approaches, as well as a coherent conversation among contributors.--Mihaela Precup "Biography, Volume 40, No. 2, Spring 2017"